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UPS makes largest purchase of renewable natural gas yet in the US: 170M gallon equivalents over 7 years

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UPS announced an agreement with Clean Energy Fuels Corp. El Paso, Texas; Fort Worth, Texas; Kansas City, Kan.; will use the RNG from Clean Energy to operate UPS delivery vehicles. Clean Energy, co-founded by T. Clean Energy, co-founded by T. Boone Pickens and Clean Energy President and CEO Andrew J.

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UPS to invest $100M more in compressed natural gas, CNG vehicles and related infrastructure

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Taken together, all of our alternative fuel vehicles represent 6% of the more than 100,000 UPS global fleet, and have driven a 10% annual reduction in use of conventional fuel. —Mark Wallace, UPS senior vice president global engineering and sustainability. El Paso, Texas; Fort Worth, Texas; Kansas City, Kan.;

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BP Biofuels, Texas AgriLife Research partner to advance cellulosic biofuel feedstock development

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The collaboration will utilize AgriLife Research’s diverse high biomass energy crop breeding program and BP Biofuels’ position as one of the few global energy companies growing commercial-scale biomass crops for liquid fuels. In 2005, BP made a commitment to spend $8 billion over 10 years on alternative energy.

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NSF awards $55.5M to support 3 new Engineering Research Centers; one focused on power electronics

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The modular treatment systems, which will need less energy and fewer chemicals, will safely enlist the selective properties of reusable engineered nanomaterials to provide clean water at any location or scale. Nature-inspired soil engineering.

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EAA National Board nominations from across North America

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Zach Henkin Current Profession: Director of EV/EV Integration Research for the Center of Sustainable Energy How will you add value to the EAA Board? I successfully doubled EV sales in the Pacific Northwest through a US Department of Energy project I was the principal investigator for. in Business Administration.

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EAA National Board nominations from across North America

Electric Auto Association

Zach Henkin Current Profession: Director of EV/EV Integration Research for the Center of Sustainable Energy How will you add value to the EAA Board? I successfully doubled EV sales in the Pacific Northwest through a US Department of Energy project I was the principal investigator for. in Business Administration.

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NAMII awarding $9M to 15 additive manufacturing projects

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GE Global Research (3DSim, Inc.; University of Texas - El Paso (Lockheed Martin; Northrop Grumman Corporation; rp+m, Inc.; CDI Corporation; Honeywell Aerospace; Pan Computing LLC; Penn State University; United Technologies Research Center; and the University of Louisville). Stratasys, Ltd.; and The Timken Company).